[Beowulf] portable clusters

John Hearns wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 15:09 -0500, Andrew Fant wrote:
>>>Jim Lux wrote:
>>>>I can't speak to how viable the use of windows as a head node is, but
>> I
>>>do know that LANL had a paper in the last couple of Linux Journals
>> about
>>> building just such a beast, housed in a plastic toolbox. They had
>>one of their prototypes on display at SC2005. They use a thinkpad as
>>the head node on their systems. You might want to check with them
>> for
>>>more engineering details.
>> If I remember the article this was a stack of PC-105 boards?
> They stacked the boards using threaded spacers.
Bento aka the lunchbox cluster:
http://www.linuxbios.org/data/clusters/bento/
and the new and improved version DQ
http://www.linuxbios.org/data/clusters/dq/index.html
I heard that these got quite a review from airport security when they
were taken as carry-on.
-Bari